If you've ever taught or given pointers in a martial arts class, are you sometimes amazed by some people's inability to follow simple instructions? ("Step with the other foot" or "Don't kick until I say so", or "Complete the punch, then kick")
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I haven't done martial arts but I have instructed and been instructed. I think what is happening when they seem unable to process a simple command is what sometimes happens to me. Often, I have focused my listening on "getting the command word" to the point that the directive (don't, now, wait until I say, complete, step) is lost and I react instantly to the action not the directive on the command. There was actually a study a few years back that showed that children do not hear the "don't" of a directive so much so that when you say "don't touch that" they hear "touch that". .. Which explained, for me, the puzzling situations that made me say "But I just told you don't touch that!"
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... yes ... it seems that the old saying is still very true today ... "The hardest gift to give, yet the one most needed, is and will always be, wisdom." Buddha.
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